Tao ljubavi
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- Author: Blatnik Andrej
- Publisher: Meandar
- Availability: Available
- Condition: Very good
- Code: 71715
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Tao ljubavi
Blatnik Andrej
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Andrej Blatnik: The Tao of Love
Andrej Blatnik is probably the first name of the so-called "young Slovenian prose" that began to be associated with the term postmodernism in the mid-eighties. That label was justified in many ways; partly already with his debut Buketa za Adama vena (1983), and undoubtedly with his following books: Torches and Tears (1987), and the collection of short prose Biographies of the Nameless: Small Stories 1982-1988. (1989), Blatnik presented to the reading public one of the most consistent achievements of that then new literary aesthetic direction. (...) The Tao of Love (tao, that is, dao = path) differs significantly from his first novel (Torches and Tears). (...) The Tao of Love is by no means a self-sufficient metafictional work, but a short novel (bordering on a novella in scope) with a minimalist-intimist orientation, which builds on the Tsarever tradition of Blatnik's short prose more than Torches and Tears. The main character, the narrator in the first person, is a typical subject of the age of exhausted existence. He and his companion are introduced as such already in the opening paragraphs. Exhausted existence is based in an empty reality, in which now - instead of only in literature - all possibilities have been exhausted. That's why for both heroes "reality, one could say, repeats itself. And soon it's all boring. That's why we're looking, as they usually say, for something new"; however, that new cannot be anything definite. - Tomo Virk
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- Author: Blatnik Andrej
- Publisher: Meandar
- Year of publication:1998
- Place of publication:Zagreb
- Pages:151
- Dimensions:13x20 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Very good
- Binding:Softcover
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